A professor who has neither discussed nor specified how students will be evaluat

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A professor who has neither discussed nor specified how students will be evaluated until the last week of class or one who fails to update an old syllabus that does not reflect the current content of the course would be in violation of Standard 7.03, Accuracy in Teaching. Is this statement True or False?  

Sexual relationships with students or supervisees are a specific example of an unethical multiple relationship. The prohibition against sex with students and supervisees does not apply to anyone who is a student or supervisee in the psychologist’s department, agency, or training center or over whom the psychologist might be likely to have evaluative authority in the program or supervised setting. Is this statement True or False?

Fairness and justice require that academic and supervisory evaluations should be solely based on a student’s personal characteristics that have not been observed to affect their performance or that are outside the established bounds of program requirements. Is this statement True or False?

A student came to see a professor during office hours to discuss his poor grade on the midterm exam in a graduate course on human sexuality. The professor asked the student if he might be doing poorly in the course because of anxieties about his own sexuality. Is this scenario Ethical or Unethical?

A research psychologist who agreed to mentor a graduate student’s doctoral research consistently postponed or missed meetings with the student resulting in the student missing the departmental deadline for dissertation proposals. The mentor gave the student an incomplete for the semester, which resulted in the student having to pay additional tuition to propose the following semester. Is this scenario Ethical or Unethical?

Explanation / Answer

It’s purely unethical from both the end, from the research psychologist and from the college’s end because it’s evident that the research psychologist who agreed to mentor, didn’t do his work by postponing and cancelling the meetings. He, although knew that it was his fault, gave the student an incomplete report. The college also charged the student a second time fee for not completing things on time. I view the research psychologist’s act as active unethical action while the department’s decision to penalize the student with a second time fee as the passive unethical action.

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